Washington Post: A defiant Iran said Tuesday that it is determined to hold on to all aspects of its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, and lashed out at the United States and Europe for trying to limit its efforts. The comments, made by Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi at a conference on the future of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, came as officials in Tehran indicated that they are ready to end a suspension of some of their nuclear programs.

The Wall Street Journal: Iran may be preparing for a new showdown over its nuclear ambitions with European negotiators and their wary supporters in Washington. In recent days, Iranian officials have signaled repeatedly that they may resume the first stage of nuclear-fuel production, making uranium feedstock that can be enriched for reactor fuel or a nuclear bomb. Europe and the U.S. are pressing Tehran to abandon all efforts to produce nuclear fuel.

AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday
that Iran should not seek to develop nuclear weapons under the pretenses of developing a civilian nuclear program. “There needs to be a very clear commitment from the Iranians to live up to their international obligations and not to seek nuclear weapons under cover of nuclear civilian power,” Rice told …

Los Angeles Times: European countries seeking to negotiate an end to Iran’s nuclear enrichment program are asking the Bush administration for more help, saying the United States should offer Tehran new incentives to revive foundering talks, U.S. officials said. The request for a new U.S. overture, made last week, was viewed as another sign that the talks between Iran and European Union representatives had made little headway since the two sides renewed efforts last fall to reach
an agreement.

Reuters: Iran is determined to develop all legal types of
nuclear technology, including processes that could be used to develop fuel for weapons, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
said on Tuesday. “Iran is determined to pursue all legal areas of nuclear technology including enrichment, exclusively for peaceful purposes,” Kharrazi told a United Nations-sponsored conference on nuclear disarmament.